I’ll just tack on a bit to what Ashley said. Social Sites does 4 things for SharePoint:
- Bring in content from many feeds, filtered and focused for a site with the ability to mark things read and tag items
- Easy, one-click subscription and routing of SharePoint changes - I have SharePoint blog posts going to a desktop notifier and document library changes going to my blackberry for example
- Better discovery and usability - Social Sites provides a quick scan page including a tag cloud (you can put the tag cloud web part on any / all of your team sites), a view of the top moving feeds, and most active users
- Easy discovery of expertise and interests. You can click on an author or tagger’s name to get a mini profile or view a full profile page and see tags, top subscriptions, saved items, and more for that user

Hopefully all that doesn’t sound too “salesy”, but I just wanted to point out that there’s a lot going on in Social Sites. We have a SharePoint MVP on staff and focused the entire enterprise development team on this to build it out (leveraging a ton of capability we had in our enterprise RSS server). One other note - the $20K price is an approximation - the actual price scales with total seats.

If you’re still curious after all this please check out the 90-second video on our product page at:
http://www.newsgator.com/Business/SocialSites/Default.aspx

Thx,
Brian Kellner
VP, Product Management

Die interessanteste Nachricht des Tages ist die Anbindung von Confluence von Atlassian an MOSS 2007 (Microsoft Press Release) - ähnlich wie es mit der Einbindung von Socialtext in MOSS 2007-Umgebungen vorgesehen war/ist.
Zwar basiert Atlassian auf…

Social Sites is indeed based on RSS, but it’s not really an “RSS” solution. You got it right that it enhances the existing social networking functionality within SharePoint (but also WSSv3). It’s also a great solution to surface what’s going on in my organization. We have some really nice rollup views into SharePoint that help people discover other people and discover content within SharePoint. To date, most people’s answer to content discovery in organizations has been “just search for it.” But, it’s also effective to be able to grasp what’s going on organically at a quick glance.

Check out Jeff’s post here for some additional insights: http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/10/17/newsgator-social-sites-launches/

Would love to give you a demo any time, just drop me a line.

Thanks for the post!

Ashley Roach
Product Manager, Enterprise
NewsGator Technologies